At 1:26 PM -0600 4/25/02, LuKreme imposed structure on a stream of electrons, yielding: >At 12:12 4/25/2002 -0700 Dan MacDonald wrote: >>The argument that a well run, publicly available blacklist(s) is preferable >>to this system is compelling. > >Yes, but with the spammers taking legal action and, absurdly, the >courts siding with them, it makes the whole RBL thing much more >difficult.
I'm not sure what you are talking about. There has never been a lawsuit over RBL-style blacklists which has been decided in a court. >In the end, I think the only system that will work will be a >verified sender whitelist where ALL unknown mail is blocked. I very much hope not. I expect that one thing spam will accelerate is the devolution of email out of the hands of ISP's and into the hands of relatively small user collections such as families. You cannot ever hope to implement really good spam filtering at the ISP level because once you get past a few hundred users from the general public, the diversity of that community makes for a broad range of mail that people really want to get through. This makes SIMS all the more interesting as a mail server because it is ideally suited for microservers. On hardware that is otherwise laughable by today's standards, you can set up a server for a dozen users that almost never stops working and doesn't require a multidisciplinary expert to administer. -- Bill Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
